Microsoft's Android Shakedown — In the 1980s, attorney Gary Reback was working at Sun Microsystems, then a young technology startup. A pack of IBM employees in blue suits showed up at Sun headquarters seeking royalties for 7 patents that IBM claimed Sun had infringed.

Facebook trapped in MySQL ‘fate worse than death’ — According to database pioneer Michael Stonebraker, Facebook is operating a huge, complex MySQL implementation equivalent to “a fate worse than death,” and the only way out is “bite the bullet and rewrite everything.”

Amazon Is Building Out Warehouses Like Crazy — Amazon is on a building boom: the company has announced two new fulfillment centers in the last two days, adding a total of more than 2 million square feet. — The new centers are in Phoenix (adding to three others there) and Plainfield …

When it comes to presentation, Mark Zuckerberg is no Steve Jobs — (CNN) — Don't let the sweatshirts and flip-flops fool you: The tech world is all about image. And there's no better place to see this than the tech-company press conference — in which execs show off new products with elaborate PowerPoint presentations.

Investment Values Twitter at $8 Billion — While Twitter isn't rushing to go public like some of its larger peers, the micro-blogging service doesn't lack investor interest. — The San Francisco, Calif.-based start-up is in the process of raising $400 million dollars …

Gmail to roll out new inbox sorting options — Google introduced Priority Inbox last year to much fanfare from those with bottomless inboxes, and today announced that it is taking the sorting options it provides to users a step further in the coming weeks. — The new sorting options include Classic …

Apple's App Store Downloads Top 15 Billion — Apple® today announced that over 15 billion apps have been downloaded from its revolutionary App Store™ by the more than 200 million iPhone®, iPad® and iPod touch® users worldwide. The App Store offers more than 425,000 apps …

Google+ Brand Pages Coming in Two Weeks — Ford, MTV and Mashable Likely Among First Allowed to Create Company Pages — Soon after the launch of Google+ came the inevitable next question: When can brands set up pages there, as they have successfully on Facebook? Now, an answer: in about two weeks.

Twitter security lags some other sites: experts — (Reuters) - The fast-growing microblogging site Twitter has fallen behind some other Internet services in introducing tools to help secure the accounts of users, security experts say. — Weaknesses in Twitter's security became apparent …

HTC facing backlash for S3 acquisition — Wall Street does not like HTC's decision to purchase S3 Graphics. — Bloomberg reports that HTC's shares saw its largest drop in three weeks after Citigroup downgraded the stock's investment rating over concerns about the $300 million acquisition.